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2013 in Review

The charitable assets raised by the former Detroit Medical Center found a permanent home in 2013, more than two years after the health system's acquisition by then-Vanguard Health Systems Inc. (now TenetHealthcare Corp.)

And the Society of St. Vincent de Paul Detroit joined Maryland-based Planet Aid in filing a lawsuit against Houston-based American Textile Recycling Services, claiming illegal seizure and disposal of their donation bins at several sites in Southeast Michigan.

State Rep. Jeff Farrington, R-Utica, in September introduced legislation that would effectively reverse recent changes enacted by the Michigan Gaming Control Board to the way charitable poker games can operate in the state.

Just weeks after the introduction of a bill that which would, to a large extent, relax recently enacted, tighter regulation of charity poker games, the executive director of the Michigan Gaming Control Board proposed new, formal rules that would tighten regulation of the games even further.

Nonprofits name new leaders in 2013

There were plenty of comings and goings among nonprofit leaders during 2013. Among them:

The Michigan Nonprofit Association named former banking industry executive Donna Murray-Brown as its new president and CEO in the spring, and it named Michael Rafferty as new director for its Detroit office to succeed her.

Reid Thebault

Reid Thebault, president and CEO of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, announced his retirement.

Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation named Toledo health care foundation leader Anthony Werner as its president and CEO.

Kurt Metzger

Metro Detroit data guru Kurt Metzger, subsequently elected mayor of Pleasant Ridge, announced plans to retire by year's end as director of Data Driven Detroit.

Other nonprofit news during the year

William Davidson Foundation President Jonathan Aaron filed a suit in Oakland County Probate Court, seeking to split the foundation's roughly $1 billion in assets into two entities, citing family politics that were interrupting the foundation's grant-making. But Judge Daniel O'Brien ruled his court didn't have jurisdiction over the case.

Oak Park-based food rescue organization Forgotten Harvest broke into the farming business with its first large-scale planting on about 92 acres of land in Fenton, leased from the Moroun family.

The Ann Arbor-based Fair Food Network expanded the healthy-food incentive program it launched nearly five years ago at Eastern Market to three Detroit grocery stores.

The Chaldean Community Foundation announced plans to get into the housing development market, saying it was negotiating the purchase of several acres of property in the West Bloomfield-Bloomfield Hills area for long-term housing and supportive services for Chaldean refugees.